Carnival Corp. has extended its employment agreement with CEO Arnold Donald, which had been set to expire this month.Donald signed on for a three-year term, effective Oct. 14, 2013. He actually began …
Russian Hotels Profiting From Increased Foreign Tourism Inflow
The growing inflow of foreign tourists is of great benefits to the Russian hoteliers, who has been increasing the prices. According to estimates of tour operators, next summer the cost of hotel accomm…
Tourism In Kyrgyzstan Plans To Improve The Services
In 2015, tourism in Kyrgyzstan recorded 4 million visitors. The authorities plan to improve the conditions and services in the country and to attract more tourists.At a round table devoted to the prob…
Is VAT causing tourists to pick Kenya over Tanzania?
Travellers may opt to travel to Kenya instead of Tanzania because of increases in the average hotel room rates in Tanzania, as well as the country’s recently introduced VAT on tourism services, …
Senior Tourism In Argentina Expected To Boom
Senior tourism in Argentina is likely to get booming thanks to a new project. Over the next two years, retirees and pensioners traveling on Aerolíneas Argentinas will receive a discount of 30% …
Flight Check: Auckland to Norfolk Island on Air New Zealand
Plane: An A320.Class: Economy with the works.Price: Fares from $270 one-way ex-AucklandMy Seat: 26F – window seat on the right-hand side of the plane. I was half asleep when I got on the early f…
TW survey: Trump’s candidacy pushing agents, clients to shun his hotels
Amid a growing number of reports that Trump properties have seen business drop off in parallel with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, Travel Weekly surveyed a representative sample of our re…
Hurtigruten names new expedition ships
Hurtigruten, the Norwegian coastal and expedition cruise line, said two new ships it is building for 2018 and 2019 will be called the Roald Amundsen and the Fridtjof Nansen.While they may not exactly …
France: Mobile Booking represents 23% Of Reservations
In the second trimester of 2016, a third of online travel bookings in the world was done via mobile devices, compared to 24% for the same period of 2015 – 20% for hotels, 18% for visits, and 12%…
China’s HNA Group acquiring 25% of Hilton Worldwide
China-based HNA Group will become Hilton Worldwide’s largest shareholder after reaching an agreement to acquire 25% of the hotel company from Blackstone Group.HNA will pay $26.25 a share, or abo…